Thought for the Day

“Ambition: An overmastering desire
to be vilified by enemies while living
and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”

~ Ambrose Bierce

Thought for the Day

“Don’t bother just to be better
than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.”

~ William Faulkner

“Most people would succeed in small things
if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Of course I’m ambitious.
What’s wrong with that?
Otherwise you sleep all day.”

~ Ringo Starr

“I’m not nearly the threat
I’d hoped to become.”

~ Arlo Guthrie

Quote of the Day
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
~Thomas Merton~

Thought of the Day
For some time I have wondered, should ambition be labeled a bad word? It is my belief that ambition teaches and encourages greed. I suppose it might depend on how you define ambition, for example; it has been my ambition to live a simple self-sustaining life, to live with less instead of more.

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Thought for Today

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you too,
can become great.”

~ Mark Twain